About A Life Serious
‘Seriousness, like life, is a thought and this thought creates a feeling. And if you create the feeling of seriousness then you are in a very serious state. You are very liable to have stress and strain and sickness and unhappiness and jealousy and everything else because of seriousness. Now seriousness doesn’t help you do anything in life but destroy yourself.’
Syd Banks, The Best of Two Worlds
Hi, I’m George and I’ve been on a journey of living life less seriously for the last 16 years. It all started in 2010 when I was working for a charity that employed me to organise the first Innate Health conference in the UK. At that time, I was at a happy point in my life and had no idea the vast amount of serious busy-minded and often anxious thinking that was impacting me. To the extent that a few days before the conference was due to start, I was in such a serious state, pre-occupied by thoughts of what I had to do, how I had to be Little Miss Responsible and overthinking every little detail, that I ran into a door and smashed my face in, gaining 2 black eyes! – Not a good look for someone welcoming people to a conference about well-being! – Tee Hee! This began my journey of opening up to the wisdom of life that is there to guide us if we let it, and loosening the hold that my intellect and serious thinking had on me.
To me, looking in this direction has been an ongoing lesson in taking my thinking less seriously:
In seeing beyond my anxious thinking so even though I still may have it , it doesn’t have me…
In getting more comfortable in the ‘I don’t know’, rather than feeling that I need to be ultra responsive to people…
In listening to my body screaming at me to slow down…
In hearing my negative self-talk and recognising that I am my own worst enemy when I constantly berate myself for the smallest misdemeanours…
In learning to get beyond my desperate need to please everyone and not to unintentionally upset them…
In seeing I have no idea how others view me...
In being led by my soul, not my head and seeing where that leads…
In coming up against myself over and over again whatever ‘myself’ is in that moment…
In pursuing what I hope will make a difference to people and the world, even when that seems insignificant to what is required…
In seeing time and time again I am not in control…
In creating space in my life for doing something that lights me up…
In having the courage to share my light/my truth with the world…
In knowing I have everything I need…
In trusting myself…
In following my star…
In following the path of love and connection…
In just being…
If you can relate to this and would like to find ways to exlplore this further, I would love to hear from you.